“Underground is the optical cable, please leave immediately!” On January 20th, a Wuhan Telecom trunk optical cable patrol drone in Yuping Avenue, Jiangxia District, Wuhan, detected a safety hazard and issued an alert in real time. The relevant footage was simultaneously transmitted back to the monitoring screen, and the patrol personnel’s mobile terminals also received reminders. Trunk maintenance personnel rushed to the scene quickly, successfully coordinated the withdrawal of construction excavators, and resolved a cable safety risk in a timely manner.
Real-Time Early Warning & Rapid Disposal: AI+Drones Defuse Cable Hazards
“Construction is dense in the Longquan area, and drone patrols have been a great help.” The person in charge of Wuhan Telecom’s trunk maintenance team introduced that recently, the team has been conducting drone patrol inspections on the buried optical cable routes in the Longquan area of Jiangxia District. Relying on “Artificial Intelligence +” technology, it has accurately identified and quickly resolved 3 major line safety hazards within the past month, injecting new momentum into the intelligent upgrade of trunk maintenance work.
Similar hazard disposal scenarios are not uncommon. Earlier, the trunk support room discovered through drone patrol monitoring that mechanical construction operations were taking place within 3 meters of the 651# marker near the Wuhan-Ezhou relay section of the National Grade I Trunk Nanjing-Hanjiang Optical Cable. This construction site is adjacent to the buried optical cable, and if not handled in a timely manner, it is highly likely to cause a cable break accident, directly affecting the stable operation of the regional communication network. The trunk support room immediately coordinated with the Jiangxia Trunk Branch, and maintenance personnel rushed to the scene to coordinate disposal, successfully avoiding a major communication risk.
Beyond Traditional Inspection: All-Coverage & Accurate Judgment Advantages
Compared with the traditional manual inspection model, drones, with their aerial inspection advantages, can easily cover complex areas such as mountains and remote suburbs that are difficult for personnel to reach, realizing all-round and blind-spot-free inspection of optical cable routes, which greatly improves inspection efficiency and the accuracy of hazard identification. The in-depth integration of “Artificial Intelligence +” technology has further driven the inspection work to cross from “full coverage” to “accurate judgment”—the AI algorithm automatically identifies risk targets such as construction machinery and operators, effectively filling the blind spots of manual patrols in complex scenarios in remote areas, making hazard inspection more targeted.
Project Tackling & Landing: Laying a Solid Foundation for Intelligent Maintenance
“The Wuhan Telecom drone project is a module for drone patrols developed based on our own intelligent inspection platform, which effectively solves the current problems of insufficient patrol frequency and inability to patrol special sections. It can solve various emergencies faster and more intelligently.” The person in charge introduced that to comprehensively promote the intelligent transformation of trunk maintenance, Wuhan Telecom has actively deployed the “Artificial Intelligence +” initiative, established a special task force, and fully promoted the landing of the “AI + Drones” intelligent inspection data solution. The task force took the initiative to shoulder the heavy responsibility, independently completed the entire process of Longquan drone airport construction, equipment installation and commissioning, patrol data collection, test flight verification, power channel construction, etc., strictly followed operating procedures, and successfully overcame key links such as base station hardware erection, software configuration, and signal testing. At the same time, it established and improved equipment operation and maintenance accounts to ensure the standardized and orderly progress of all work.
After nearly three months of intensive tackling, the team not only efficiently completed the drone airport construction and commissioning tasks, significantly expanded the regional signal coverage, but also trained a team of professional and capable backbone personnel, laying a talent foundation for subsequent intelligent operation and maintenance work.
The accurate disposal of multiple line safety hazards through “Artificial Intelligence +” technology this time marks the initial success of the relevant tackling project of Wuhan Telecom Access Maintenance Center, realizing the landing application of “Artificial Intelligence +” technology in the entire process of trunk maintenance. The intelligent upgrade of trunk maintenance work not only lays a solid foundation for regular drone patrols and emergency communication support, but also further strengthens the regional communication network security line, providing reliable communication support for the high-quality development of Hubei’s digital economy.
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